Except McDavid is approaching UFA, Toronto isn't a poorly regarded destination and Toronto will pay the man. Plus there's precedent for stars wanting to go back to hometown Toronto much more than Calgary. Tavares, being the prime example, but Gio wanted to go there was well, same for a few other guys.
lol that's not an exception to my post, you just strengthened what I was saying
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… I got this feeling when the summer days were about gone
The Oilers left messages I watched, I deleted them
I threw my Oilers sh*t into a bag and pushed it down the stairs
I drove my car out of Edmonton
… I don't care, I love it
I don't care
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We’ve focused on broberg and Holloway departing…but the cupboards are more bare than that.
Staples top 5 oilers forward prospects this time last year and where they are today:
Lavoie: In his fourth AHL season, Lavoie had 50 points in 66 games, but failed to make the Oilers and was waived, with no claims.
Savoie: In his second AHL season, Savoie had 22 points in 63. The Oilers did not offer him a new contract.
Gulliver: In his second AHL season, Tullio had 21 points in 54 games. He was traded with Ryan McLeod to Buffalo for Matthew Savoie.
Bourgault: saw his scoring drop from 34 points in 62 games to 20 points in 55 games in his second AHL season. He was traded to Ottawa for Robby Jarventie.
Petrov: In his rookie AHL season, Petrov had 14 points in 53 AHL games, dropping from third to 13th in rankings of Oilers prospects.
4 of the 5 are out of the Oilers organization entirely.
They really are in trouble.
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he's might be leaving next season, but still, it's farewell
And no he won't come back to Shelbyville, that much we can tell?
I guess Edmonton is to blame
He's leaving soon (Leaving soon)
Will the Oilers ever be good again again?
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It's the Pissy countdown
The Pissy countdown
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We’ve focused on broberg and Holloway departing…but the cupboards are more bare than that.
Staples top 5 oilers forward prospects this time last year and where they are today:
Lavoie: In his fourth AHL season, Lavoie had 50 points in 66 games, but failed to make the Oilers and was waived, with no claims.
Savoie: In his second AHL season, Savoie had 22 points in 63. The Oilers did not offer him a new contract.
Gulliver: In his second AHL season, Tullio had 21 points in 54 games. He was traded with Ryan McLeod to Buffalo for Matthew Savoie.
Bourgault: saw his scoring drop from 34 points in 62 games to 20 points in 55 games in his second AHL season. He was traded to Ottawa for Robby Jarventie.
Petrov: In his rookie AHL season, Petrov had 14 points in 53 AHL games, dropping from third to 13th in rankings of Oilers prospects.
4 of the 5 are out of the Oilers organization entirely.
They really are in trouble.
Can't help but giggle seeing how they've now essentially dismissed the value of prospects to a team in their current stage to cope with these developments and reassure themselves.
All in. Get a cup and none of it matters!
Unless you don't (which is probable)... then yeah, emptying the cupboards matters a lot.
"We'll bottom out"
Hmm, not sure about that either. You've spend so much dough in FA to reinforce the forward group with aging vets who will put up their share of points. When McD leaves you won't be contenders any more of course, but all those veterans contracts could keep you from bottoming out and in that no man's land
The Oilers are also putrid at developing unpolished talents into polished ones. They need picks to be high to make anything out of them.
Everything will be "fine" up there until it isn't, and it will probably happen in dramatic and glorious fashion.
From TMZ Frank’s article on the Seth Jarvis extension:
Take Hart Trophy winner Leon Draisaitl and the contract he is currently negotiating with the Edmonton Oilers. Sources indicate Draisaitl’s initial ask on a long-term deal was north of $14 million per year on average.
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From TMZ Frank’s article on the Seth Jarvis extension:
Take Hart Trophy winner Leon Draisaitl and the contract he is currently negotiating with the Edmonton Oilers. Sources indicate Draisaitl’s initial ask on a long-term deal was north of $14 million per year on average.
More importantly, he posited one of the dumbest things I've read in a while.
What if Draisaitl was hypothetically willing to defer $33.6 million of that contract to be paid out over the 40 years after the deal expires?
That would pay Draisaitl $80 million over the first eight years of the deal, hypothetically making for a cap hit in the neighborhood of $10 million per year – or a discount of $4.2 million per year of the deal.
No Frank, it doesn't work that way.
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what if draisaitl was hypothetically willing to defer $33.6 million of that contract to be paid out over the 40 years after the deal expires?
That would pay draisaitl $80 million over the first eight years of the deal, hypothetically making for a cap hit in the neighborhood of $10 million per year – or a discount of $4.2 million per year of the deal.
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he um does understand that the nhl actually has to sign off on contracts right? The oilers just can't do what they want to avoid the cap right?
This deferring half his contract plan kind of reminds me of the 30 teams willing to line up and retain salary for the Oilers so they can bring in an all star team at the deadline for like 50k.
Frank again, shamelessly carrying the water for the Oilers organization, and, such simple logic panders well to the simple Oilers fans, especially those getting all juicy over the fact he will come in at $10M per season.
Subtle comparison of Draisital to Ohtani is the most outrageous part of that, actually.
Normally I don’t click on the links to support them, but in this case I had to confirm he actually wrote that. And not even prompted. Why bring in the oilers to start with? Dumbfounding.
